Lol, no. This is what happens when you don't talk to real leftists and spend all your time circlejerking each other.
Calling someone privileged because they are white is because whiteness bestows privileges. You're like, "No, it doesn't!"
White people own 86% of wealth and make up 60% of the population
White High School Drop-Outs Are As Likely To Land Jobs As Black College Students
And there's plenty more. There is a very strong correlation between a white skin color and being anywhere other than the bottom of the social strata in the United States. Whiteness as privilege is just a shortened quip that captures that idea. You're essentially attacking a strawman.
Now, I will admit that #NotAllWhitePeople are as privileged as the white label might suggest. I've lived in Dayton, OH, hollowed out by automakers outsourcing their operations to Mexico, and they are clearly very poor. That East Palestine train débâcle is a case in point. And it flies in the face of the fact that middle-aged white men, generally considered to be the wealthiest, kill themselves at a higher rate that any other demographic.
Critical race theory is a grift. It's not real. What's real is class warfare. Rich people are happy for us to fight each other over the scraps from their table. But feel free to keep carrying that water.
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Saying "white people are privileged" isn't a judgement though, it is a perceived description of reality. And because of "racism" (the idea that humanity can be separated into different "races" based on characteristics such as skin color), if society places you in the "white people" category, you will be treated differently than if you are placed into the "non-white category".
To name a specific and concrete example, if you happen to get classified as "white", you will not be racially profiled and searched by police simply because of your racial classification. In this specific case, white people have the privilege of not having to deal with that issue.
Where the idea of white privilege falls short is that it implies that "white people" are always more privileged and/or better off than "black people" in every way, which is obviously not true. In reality, your perceived class identity is much more important when it comes to how you are probably going to be treated by society.
The issue is that oftentimes, race is used to judge someone's class status. A black person is more likely to be classified as "poor". However, when you are "white", but you look like a homeless person, you will probably be treated in a similar way.
What you're describing is specific to just a few places, mostly the USA. If you go to the middle east and start dancing around in speedos as a white male you're not going to feel very privileged.
Agree with a lot of what you said at the end. For me, the issue is that talking about race is useless. There's nothing CRT can predict that "financial class theory" won't predict better. And, unlike CRT, it works everywhere on earth.
If you go to the middle east and start dancing around in speedos as a white male you’re not going to feel very privileged.
So if you go to the middle east as a white person, especially a white man, you will feel incredibly privileged.. Maybe more so than in the west.. Of course there are significant differences depending on where exactly you go, but in a lot of places, there are significant differences of standards that apply to tourists compared to locals. And as a white person, people of course automatically assume that you are a tourist and they will be much much more tolerant towards behaviour that is normally not tolerated.
For example, there are many places where alcohol is completely illegal for locals, but it is completely legal for tourists. And if you wear a speedo, you might get some looks, but if your white, everyone knows you are a western tourist and will most likely tolerate it. If you are a local and/or non-white, chances of it being tolerated will probably be lower. And certainly if you are female, the chances of it being tolerated is virtually 0.
And there are many laws where the police either looks the other way, or it officially does not apply to westeners (anti-LGBT laws, sex outside of marriage laws, etc.)..
There’s nothing CRT can predict that “financial class theory” won’t predict better.
I mean there are a lot of different theories about many different things that might or might not be interesting for certain people. I'm not an academic, so I don't know if CRT is usefull or not, but at the end of the day, a theory is a theory.. It probably has it's limits of usefulness, but using the state to ban/outlaw a theory seems very questionable to me on principle.
It's never been about equality. It's ALWAYS been about tearing into whites. Somehow people still can't see this obvious truth. And each time, you can turn over the rock and find a jew. Every damn time.
